UNINVITED: A Novel of Obsession. James Gabriel Berman (1st Edition US H/B) 1995

UNINVITED: A Novel of Obsession by James Gabriel Berman

A shocking scene sets the story. Four bodies, an entire family, are discoverd dead in their luxury home: the son tucked into bed, the daughter alone in the bathroom, the father in his study, and the mother in the kitchen.

Twenty years earlier, the murdered mother, Patricia Carver, was a little girl building sandcastles on the beach. A young boy approached her, offered her a seashell, and began a lifeong fantasy around the little girl who grew up, blossomed into womanhood, and seemed to lead a golden, charmed life. Today the boy with the seashell is a man called Tony, accused of multiple murder.

His lawyer is the only person capable of followingg the twisting threads of the individual stories, and the only person who knows the real and final answer to the question of Tony's guiltor innocence. he tells his client: "There's no such thing as truth. Onlt stories - good and bad."

Racing to its astonishing finale, UNINVITED is an ioronic and masteful story of "true love" and a brilliant work of psychological suspense. Most of all, it uncovers horrors around us all, the kind we never see or bother to think about-horros lurking behid the well-tended lawns of our prettiest communities, within the intricacies of the legal system, and inside te hearts and minds of driven human beings.

A FIRST EDITION American hardback published in 1995 by Warner Books